<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They're also concerned about their next election -- and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tall Oak, towering to the skies, The fury of the wind defies,  From age to age, in virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tall Oak, towering to the skies, The fury of the wind defies,  From age to age, in virtue strong.   Inured to stand, and suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No command of art, No toil, can help you hear;  Earth's minstrelsy falls clear   But on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No command of art, No toil, can help you hear;  Earth's minstrelsy falls clear   But on the listening heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debters are lyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debters are lyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43740]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10822]]></link><description><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35582]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I think we'll see a lot of transactions in the next few months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O these degenerate days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860]]></link><description><![CDATA[O these degenerate days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced that men did not know God. They can't, He said, or they could not live as they are doing. Some of them are so anxious and worried, with all God's care and strength and love to lean against! They cannot know of it, and be so fidgety and nervous as they are. Some of them are afraid. Their consciences have drawn so grim a picture of Him that fearfully they shrink out of His presence, wish there were not God! Frightened of God, with His free and full and eager forgiveness, with His incredible generosity, with His compassionate heart that nobody can sour into illwill, do what he may. And even the best of them are not quite sure. Their faith at most is but a timorous hope, and a trembling perhaps; no more. Often in the Synagogue He had watched them sobbing out their penitential psalms and begging God to turn from anger and be gracious toward them... And it amazed Christ. Look at His sun, He cries, how it streams down in all its midday fullness on the most unworthy, and at the rain, how it falls healingly upon the fields of the least grateful, and how He keeps thrusting His benefits and blessings into the most soiled hands, loading the most impossible people with His kindnesses. If only I could make them see God as He really is: if only they could realize that He is their Father, that what their own child is to them, that, and far more, each of them is to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was trying not to play her a lot. I thought we were in pretty good shape at 12-4. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was trying not to play her a lot. I thought we were in pretty good shape at 12-4. I didn't realize that was the highlight of the first half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extending to every aspect of human life. In a secular society, religion cannot remain a department of life. It must be the expression of a faith that extends over the whole of life, or it will be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that will perk up her portfolio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that will perk up her portfolio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the worst poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the worst poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary  The fall was simply this, that some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary  The fall was simply this, that some creature -- that is, something which is not God -- took His place with man; and man, trusting the creature more than God, walked in its light -- or darkness -- rather than in fellowship with God. Righteousness comes back when man by faith is brought to walk with God again, and to give Him His true place by acting or being acted upon in all things according to His will. Anything, therefore, not of faith is sin. And all such sin is bondage. Self-will is bondage, for self-will or independence of God means dependence on a creature; and we cannot be dependent on a creature, be it what it may, without (more or less) becoming subject to it. What has not been given up for money, or for some creature's love? But who has ever thus served the creature more than the Creator without waking at last to feel he is a bondman? I say nothing of the worse bondage which comes from our self-will, in the indulgence of our own thoughts, or passions, or affections. Even the very energies of faith, while, as yet unchastened, it acts from self, ... may only bring forth more bondage... Who but God can set men free? And He sets them free as they walk with Him. All independence of Him is darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6878</guid></item></channel></rss>